Over the past decade color control has been transformed, making it possible to achieve consistency from design to final product for today’s complex color demands. At X-Rite, we understand that when you have control over your press, you know how colors will appear. Our solutions allow you to communicate color information across multiple locations throughout your workflow and realize significant quality improvements—reduce cycle time, increase efficiency of color data communication, minimize waste, create multiple formulation matches and get control of color faster, more accurately. The result: higher levels of productivity, overall consistent quality and increased customer satisfaction—a definite advantage in today’s competitive marketplace.
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Automated Chart Readers
i1iO
Spending too much time reading targets? Extend the power of your i1Pro with this automated hands-free test chart reading device. Simply plug in your device, align the test chart, and the scanning table does all the work.
Color Vision Tests
Evaluating and Assessing
Getting the color right is as important as getting the right color, and it begins in-house with the people who communicate your color to your customers.
Farnsworth Munsell 100 Hue Test
The FM 100 Hue Test is an easy-to-administer test and a highly effective method for measuring an individual's color vision.
ColorChecker Targets
X-Rite ColorChecker® Series Targets are the professional photographer's reference to ensure predictable standards under every lighting condition. Capture accurate colors from the beginning to minimize tedious trial and error color adjustments and achieve true-to-life color.
Whether working with film or in a digital workflow, you can rely on X-Rite ColorChecker® products to optimize the power of your camera and ensure accurate color reproduction.
- Manage color fidelity
- Expedite correction of tonal range
- Perfect gray balance, even in blended lighting
- Ensure color expectations can be managed
ColorChecker Targets will Ensure Your Captured Colors are True
Whether you are shooting RAW, JPEG or even film, including a ColorChecker target will ensure the colors you capture are true, saving you from correcting bad color later.
ColorChecker targets offer you unparalleled tools to attain full color control and customized creative enhancement from image capture to post-processing. You’ll be able to perform tasks like checking and evaluating shadow details or highlight clipping; checking and controlling color shifting, evaluating specific colors, creating DNG camera profiles and creating custom in-camera white balance for a consistent white point in a set of images.
Capture real life color with an X-Rite ColorChecker Targets.
ColorChecker White Balance
The ColorChecker® white balance target is a spectral neutral to deliver accurate white reproduction. Use it to perform custom in-camera white balance to guarantee precise, uniform, neutral white - under any lighting condition.
ColorChecker Classic
The ColorChecker® Classic target is designed to deliver true-to-life image reproduction so photographers can predict and control how color will look under any illumination. Each of the 24 colors represents the actual color of natural objects and reflects light just like its real-world counterpart.
Densitometers
500 Series Family
The Ultimate Solution for Process and Special Colors, including G7/ISO support and digital PANTONE libraries.
DensiEye
Versatile portable densitometer for 4 color CMYK printing.
Gloss Meters
i1 Color Management Solutions
Why do you need color management?
Color management is essential for today's complex digital imaging technologies. There are so many variables: cameras, scanners, displays, printers, customer files, legacy documents, media and ink types. You need a flexible solution that anticipates the challenges like these:
- Accurate on-screen and projected color
- Confidence in your digital camera files, scans and customer-provided colors
- Reliable match from monitor to printer
- Consistency and repeatability from print to print and printer to printer
- PANTONE and spot color measurement and output
i1 now solves your color issues faster than ever with the "Accelerated" i1Pro, letting you concentrate on what you do best — create! i1 tools are used to create and edit color profiles for all your color devices including scanners, monitors, digital cameras, digital projectors or printers. These profiles which are very much like individual fingerprints of each device, are then applied in your applications, driver or RIP to get your color correct. All of today's professional imaging and design tools support color management profiles, so it's easy to implement in your workflow!
i1iO
Spending too much time reading targets? Extend the power of your i1Pro with this automated hands-free test chart reading device. Simply plug in your device, align the test chart, and the scanning table does all the work.
i1Display 2
i1Display 2 Provides Professional Monitor Calibration for Photographers and Designers
X-Rite i1Display 2 is the professional choice for precise on-screen color. It's perfect for photographers and designers who want more control over their monitor profiles. i1Display LT
Get serious color accuracy on screen quickly and easily. The i1Display LT offers an easy solution for professional calibration and profiling of all types of monitor: LCDs, CRTs and laptops.
i1Basic
If you're just getting started in the world of color management, consider i1Basic. It provides professional-quality monitor calibration, and when you're ready, is easily to upgrade with additional i1Match modules.
i1XTreme
If you're a fine art or commercial photographer who depends on accurate color throughout your digital workflow - from monitors, scanners and cameras to RGB and CMYK printers - X-Rite i1XTreme was designed for you.
Lighting Products
Standard lighting is essential to good visual color evaluation.
Prooflite
Overhead luminaire with patented 7 phosphor fluorescent daylight source. Ideal for general color evaluation.
SpectraLight III
The most accurate simulation of natural daylight available, this patented filtered tungsten halogen light source is available in single, dual, or multiple overhead luminaire configurations.
Judge II
A patented seven-phosphor design that provides the closest match to natural daylight available in a fluorescent source.
Monitor Calibrators
i1Display 2
i1Display 2 Provides Professional Monitor Calibration for Photographers and Designers
X-Rite i1Display 2 is the professional choice for precise on-screen color. It's perfect for photographers and designers who want more control over their monitor profiles. i1Display LT
Get serious color accuracy on screen quickly and easily. The i1Display LT offers an easy solution for professional calibration and profiling of all types of monitor: LCDs, CRTs and laptops.
Platereaders
iCPlate2
Plate Control in the Palm of your Hand
PlateScope
The most accurate plate control solution available today
vipFLEX2
Take control of your flexo plate production quality. Desktop plate reader for all types of transparent flexo plates.
Portables / Handhelds
SpectroEye
The simplest and most accurate method for measuring color and density
500 Series Family
The Ultimate Solution for Process and Special Colors, including G7/ISO support and digital PANTONE libraries.
DensiEye
Versatile portable densitometer for 4 color CMYK printing.
ProfileMaker 5 Software Modules and Upgrades
Upgrade your existing ProfileMaker™ 5 system to include the same full feature set as PM5 Platinum with these available modules.
ProfileMaker 5 Measure Tool
The ProfileMaker 5 Measure Tool allows you to collect, analyze and average data from color measurement devices for accurate profile computation. Create your own custom test charts to achieve the most accurate output profiles, plus evaluate density, dot gain, gradation curves and color for complete process control.
ProfileMaker 5 Multicolor Plug-in License
This ProfileMaker 5 Platinum module allows you to create profiles for your Multicolor devices featuring CMYK plus up to 6 additional channels. Set ink priorities, minimize ink consumption and minimize metamerism for two different illuminants. Also includes Adobe Photoshop® Plug-Ins for soft/hard proofing and multicolor separations. This ProfileMaker 5 Platinum includes one license of the mulitcolor plugin. Additional licenses can be purchased separately.
Software
ProfileMaker 5 Platinum
Build, edit and fine-tune color profiles with expert control. Designed for the professional fine art and commercial photographer, ProfileMaker™ 5 Platinum ensures accurate and consistent color for all of the devices in a typical studio workflow, so you can save time and money while enhancing output quality.
ColorQuality Software
With ColorQuality, you will meet the quality standards from the start. From the receipt of the initial order (or reorder) to delivery of the final printed material, you have colors, papers, proofs and the final product under constant control.
MonacoPROFILER Platinum
Ideal for graphic arts professionals who prefer a wizard-based approach to color management, MonacoPROFILER Platinum offers expert profiling, diagnostics and editing tools for all of your input and output devices, including scanners, digital cameras, monitors and wide-gamut, extended color printers.
ProfileMaker 5 Packaging
ProfileMaker™ 5 Packaging, which also includes the aNy-Color module, allows for unprecedented consistency in N-color profiling giving the customer the option to work with RGB, CMYK, CMYK+X or true N-color without CMYK as part of a packaging workflow.
X-RiteColor® Master Software
Reduce downtime and eliminate needless color mistakes with this
versatile software package that provides immediate access to color
control data in any type of manufacturing facility.
ProfileMaker 5 Multicolor Plug-in License
This ProfileMaker 5 Platinum module allows you to create profiles for your Multicolor devices featuring CMYK plus up to 6 additional channels. Set ink priorities, minimize ink consumption and minimize metamerism for two different illuminants. Also includes Adobe Photoshop® Plug-Ins for soft/hard proofing and multicolor separations. This ProfileMaker 5 Platinum includes one license of the mulitcolor plugin. Additional licenses can be purchased separately.
X-Rite PrintCheck and PressOptimizer
Whether you choose to print to international ISO Standards using industry specifications for process control like G7 or PSO, or if you're printing to your own set of tolerances – PrintCheck and PressOptimizer from X-Rite can help simplify your workflow with intuitive, uncomplicated, and affordable software that's modular – so you can choose only what you need.
Software Utilities
The 500 Series Family of Products
The Ultimate Solution for Process and Special Colors
530 SpectroDensitometer
High-end densitometer, precise colorimeter, and a powerful spectrophotometer used at every step in the production process.
508 SpectroDensitometer
Great for prepress and the press room—it accurately measures density, dot area and dot gain in a single instrument.
Transmission Densitometers
341C Portable Transmission Densitometer
The 341C Portable Transmission Densitometer concentrates the best features of a tabletop densitometer inside a compact, portable, and economical hand-held unit. We designed the 341 as a completely selfcontained instrument able to take measurements anywhere you need.
369 Diazo/Silver Film Densitometer
X-Rite created the 369 specifically for diazo films. Provides accurate densitometric measurements for media commonly used in printed circuit board and microfilm applications.